20 million hepatitis patients in Pakistan: WHO

PESHAWAR: World Health Organization (WHO) report revealed that aroud 20 million people in Pakistan were infected of Hepatitus vuris and these were numbers were quite alarming.

Vaccination for the disease is available in the market but most of the patients were living in poverty and they cannot afford the complete course of vaccination. It is one of the most deadly disease but by taking some precuationary steps, people can easily minimize the risk by getting infection of this disease and these steps were destroying the syringe after using, avoid adulterated blood tranfusion, make sure the use of sterilized surgical instruments. The repor suggested that people must take steps for stopping the hepatitus in the country because slowly but surely destroying the health of our love ones.